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Powerful Car Booms Kill at Least 25 in Aleppo, Rebel Army Blames Regime
[An Nahar] Two powerful car booms targeting security posts destroyed Syria's second city of Aleppo...For centuries, Aleppo was Greater Syria's largest city and the Ottoman Empire's third, after Constantinople and Cairo. Although relatively close to Damascus in distance, Aleppans regard Damascenes as country cousins... on Friday, killing at least 25 people and wounding 175 as the Free Syrian Army blamed the regime for the attacks. State television said "armed terrorist groups" carried out the attacks, the first in Aleppo since the outbreak of an uprising against the regime of  Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad Oppressor of the Syrians and the Lebs... almost a year ago. It said a "jacket wallah in an exploding car" carried out one of the attacks on a cop shoppe, flattening a nearby food distribution center. The second bombing targeted an intelligence base. The report showed mangled bodies in pools of blood in the street outside rows of shattered buildings, and deep craters in the ground. Emergency workers held up body parts, including hands, feet and a torso which they placed in black trash bags. "The number of deaders who have been transported to hospital in Aleppo have so far reached 25 dead and 175 maimed as a result of the terrorist attacks," the health ministry said, as quoted by state television. ... and if you can't believe state television who can you believe? A front man for the rebel Free Syrian Army blamed the regime of Assad for carrying out the two deadly car kabooms. "This criminal regime is killing our children in Homs and carrying out kabooms in Aleppo to steer attention away from what it is doing in Homs," said Colonel Maher Nouaimi told Agence La Belle France Presse. He was referring to a weeklong blitz by government forces on the central protest city of Homs, where at least 400 people have been killed, according to activists. Later on Friday, Syria's government blamed the twin blasts on "armed terrorist gangs" backed by Arab and Western nations, in a letter sent to the U.N. secretary general, the U.N. Security Council, the Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... and other organizations. "Certain countries in the region are behind a propaganda campaign against Syria and are harboring armed bully boyz for so-called humanitarian reasons," the foreign ministry wrote in the letter, according to SANA state news agency. Posted by: Fred 2012-02-11 |
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